“We have sent the petition to Amazon 3 times now in the month of may, June and August, however they have refused to acknowledge our efforts or engage in a discussion with us”
“We have asked Amazon to approve the disability union and they have not responded”
“Through our organizing and union group we generated 1120 signatures on change org and 33,000 signatures on petition site https://www.thepetitionsite.com/218/528/287/amazon-is-allegedly-using-ai-to-illegally-discriminate-against-disabled-employees/”
“From our perspective Amazon is systemically violating the rights of those with disabilities, not having an interactive process and retaliating against those that speak up and creating a severe, persistent hostile work environment for those with disabilities”
“Amazon has consistently violated the NLRB rights of multiple organizers in our group and removed posts, sent threats to remove or takedown posts and have caused a chilling affect that is seen to this day with members and those with disabilities terrified to speak up”
“They are using illegal policies to unevenly discriminate against those with disabilities advocating for their rights. They have a channel called “you too can spam one trillion Amazonian” where people talk about sports and food and what their doing after work but then selectively remove posts about workplace accessibility and discrimination based on disability”
“Members of the disability union disabled employees united disabled at Amazon provided the AI documents due to our belief that Amazon is illegally using AI to illegally discriminate against those with disabilities”
“We believe amazons recent statements stating they don’t use AI in the accommodations process to be a lie as the documentation we provided clearly shows they do use AI and automation in the accommodation process in a way we believe is used to enact discriminatory and retaliatory policies"